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The resort had a hotel established by George Geisendorfer, who was also the first postmaster. People were attracted to Cascadia because of its mineral spring water. [6] The property was sold to the state in 1940 and now is the site of the 300-acre (1.2 km 2) Cascadia State Park. A fence in Cascadia, made to look like an old town.
In 1896, George Geisendorfer opened a resort to capitalize on what he called the "curative powers" of Soda Creek's mineral spring water. The resort included a hotel, tennis courts, croquet course, garden and bowling alley. [4] The hotel later burned and the property was acquired by the state of Oregon in 1940. [5]
Ross was the first European-American to explore the Methow River area and likely the first to explore the Stehekin River and Bridge Creek region. Due to the difficulty of crossing the northern Cascades and the paucity of beaver, fur-trading companies made only a few explorations into the mountains north of the Columbia River after Ross.
second-largest wilderness lake in Oregon Mirror Lake (Clackamas County, Oregon) a mountain lake southwest of Mount Hood, located at the foot of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain: Mirror Pond: an impoundment of the Deschutes River in central Bend: Lake Modoc: a former lake on the Klamath River: Mud Lake: nineteen Oregon lakes share this name, but are ...
None of the multiple possible definitions of the Pacific Northwest is universally accepted. This map shows three possibilities: (1) The shaded area shows the historical Oregon Country. (2) The green line shows the Cascadia bioregion. [6] (3) The labeled states and provinces include Washington, Idaho, Oregon and British Columbia.
For decades, scientists have warned about the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a megathrust fault that runs offshore along the coast from northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino ...
Today it is home to the Wisconsin wine appellation of the Lake Wisconsin AVA. [1] It was formed by the construction of the Prairie du Sac Dam, which was begun in 1911 and completed in 1914. It is part of the Wisconsin River system of reservoirs. The lake has a maximum depth of 24 feet (7.3 m). [2] It has an area of 7,197 acres (29.13 km 2). [2]
The Cascadia bioregion. The area from Vancouver, B.C. down to Portland, Oregon has been termed the Cascadia Megaregion, a megaregion defined by the U.S. and Canadian governments, especially along the 'Cascadia Corridor'. Megaregions are defined as areas where "boundaries begin to blur, creating a new scale of geography now known as the megaregion.